OFFICIAL TIMETABLE OF THE TEAMMASTERS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE (8TH EDITION)

Hello Everyone!

The entire Board, Management and Team Members of the Teammasters National Spelling Bee wishes you all a Happy New Year. We do hope that this new academic session will be a successful and fruitful one!

The holidays are usually a look forward to moment for everyone – school management, teachers, students and pupils, likewise parents due to the family funtime, spare time to rest as well as make plans for the new session…some people wish it could extend a little longer, don’t you?

Anyways, we are back to school now and like it or not…holidays are OVER!!! So get yourselves (body, mind and spirit) together and set the gear in motion for a fantastic session.

Right here on this side of the world is an ongoing full steam preparation towards the 8th Edition of the Teammasters National Spelling Bee.

We are excited to finally announce the dates of the 8th edition spelling bee!!! We hope you are as excited as we are. Below is the competition calendar:

ACTIVITY

DESCRIPTION

CENTRES

DATES

COORDINATOR’S BRIEFING (LAGOS ONLY)

Coordinators would be briefed on the modalities of the competition.

All Centres

January 18, 2017

LAGOS DISTRICT FINALS

(Elimination Stage)

This is the first stage of the competition where all registered spellers compete. Elimination is done till qualifiers for the Zonals emerge.

Surulere District

January 24 & 25, 2017

Ikeja District

January 26 & 27, 2017

Berger District

January 27 & 28, 2017

Festac District

January 31 & February 1, 2017

Badagry District

Lekki District

February 2 & 3, 2017

Ajah District

AKWA – IBOM STATE FINALS

Students compete and get eliminated till the state finalists.

Uyo

February 6, 2017

CROSS RIVER STATE FINALS

Calabar

February 7, 2017

RIVERS STATE DISTRICT & STATE FINALS

Port – Harcourt

February 8 – 11, 2017

BAYELSA STATE FINALS

Yenogoa

February 10, 2017

OGUN STATE FINALS

Abeokuta

February 13, 2017

OYO STATE FINALS

Ibadan

ONDO STATE FINALS

Akure

February 14, 2017

EKITI STATE FINALS

Ado – Ekiti

OSUN STATE FINALS

Osogbo

February 15, 2017

KWARA STATE FINALS

Ilorin

February 16, 2017

LAGOS STATE ZONALS

Qualifiers from the district level compete here. Elimination is done until state qualifiers emerge

· Island Centre & Mainland Centre

February 17, 2017

February 18, 2017

DELTA STATE FINALS

Students compete for championship

Warri

February 20, 2017

ENUGU STATE FINALS

Students compete for championship

Enugu

February 21, 2017

EDO STATE FINALS

Students compete for championship

Benin

February 22, 2017

LAGOS STATE FINALS

ABUJA DISTRICT & STATE FINALS

Students compete at this stage until state finalists emerge

· Pry Category

February 24, 2017

· Sec Category

February 25, 2017

February 27 & 28, 2017

NATIONAL FINALS & PRESENTATION OF PRIZES

This is the grand finale where top winners across participating states compete for championships. This is a closing ceremony for the edition where winners are awarded prizes and special awards.

· Pry Category

March 10, 2017

· Sec Category

March 11, 2017

We hope to announce the Hosting Schools and Venues very soon.

More updates on the competition would be coming your way as time goes. Some of which would include: